Courts mandate partial SNAP funding, but Sacramento leaders and AG Bonta criticize the measure as insufficient and legally inadequate.

The USDA will provide only half of SNAP benefits for November after a federal court ordered the agency to release contingency funds during the government shutdown.

Minnesotans who receive food assistance will get partial benefits in November after two federal judges determined the Trump administration must use emergency funds to keep making payments. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced in late October it would suspend Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments starting Nov.

Trump team will partially fund SNAP benefits after judge’s order, USDA tells court - Nearly $5 billion in emergency funds will only cover 50 percent of benefits for November, officials say

Starting Friday, some of the nearly two million people in Illinois who rely on SNAP will begin receiving partial payments.

In issuing her decision, U.S. District Judge April Perry said, "I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are unreliable.